Ok, guys and gals the Trans Am is back and ready for viewing the awesome paint job. Come by when you can, I'm impressed as I'm sure you will be.

Don>>>

 

Gee Don that was quick. I will come by Saturday morning for the review. Allen

PS: Any word on Russ's car?

 

Russ is going to lose it when he sees his....they even cleaned up the wheels and they look super. It really turned out great.

 

Glad to hear you got it back so fast and that you are very happy with the quality of the work

 

what are the ET drags doing in the back?

How was the overspray? Paint quality?

Price???

 

All of the above "awesome"
He took off the front and rear, painted them seperate, took off the mirrors to do them, painted the door jams, under the hood, the door handles, bottom of the hood and the cowl he even polished the wheels and blacked the tires.
I am more than impressed.

 

Getting ready for you ....what else?

 

I won't be ready untill spring......

what what where the logistics of the project. Did you drive it down? trailer it down? How far into M was it?

 

what where the logistics of the project. Did you drive it down? trailer it down? How far into M was it?

I did drive.....a stones throw over the border 2hrs. & 20min. Otay Mesa

 

My car is going to be ready Friday afternoon. Alex (82FirebirdTA) and I are going down on Monday. He is taking his Firebird down for paint, and I'm going to give him a ride back. The price I was quoted was $1350.00. That is for two stage paint, three coats color and three coats clear with all of the body work. A single stage job is about 1/2 that price. Mine was a bit higher than Don's because they had to take mine down to bare metal.

 

Hey it, seems like your leaving something out, where
[Intake-type] is... What are you hiding??

 

You'll know it when you see it.

 

Pics! Where are the pics!

Glad to hear it turned out great. There will now be a steady stream of 3rd gens headed for the border.

 

Wow the paint looks awesome in person. Metallic flake with glitter accents isn't for me but it certainly does look good with the wet look. Plus they threw in a FREE tuck and roll interrior package in red velvet.

 

Yep...he has vowed to take good care of everyone

Oh...and of course my commission...j/k

 

Don's car really looks great.. the quality of work is awesome.. Id take mine there for a new Red.. And the price beats my friend that did some touch up on mine..
Did you happen to get the name of the paint there using Don?

 

Yeah, but what about the "Mi vida loca" mural on the hood?

 

DuPont

 

Orale...
Yo tengo the triple gold,13", 100 spoke daytons that would go perfect with the paint job, holmes

 

Thats scary, I hope you guys are getting Mexican Insurance and the car valued before you cross the border. Hell of a price, but too risky in my book- I have too much under the car to loose it.

I just bought a new DeVilbiss kit- gravity feed HV/LP for my upcoming projects. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2486791828

P.s.I have Ratfink on the Vette- "Big Daddy" Roth pinstriped it for us about 12 years ago. Friend of a friend at that time.

 

I already checked, the standard American policy covers you up to 40 miles inside Mexico. We are only going 1/4 mile into Mexico.

 

I guess I should have mentioned, this fellow had a shop here in
Ca. for 20 years and his painter has been with him for 11 years.
He just got tired of the AQMD and moved south where he can do things right.

 

Don,

Do you have to sit there in border traffic for a couple of hours before going through? Just wondering.

Also, did he remove the GFX when he painted the body? What about the rubber side deflectors at the bottom? In the picture, it looks like they have white paint on them or something. Could be glare in the photo, but I just want to make sure. Thanks.

 

Getting there is no problem, if you time it right when you leave, (coming home) it takes a short time to get through the check point. We left here at 8:00 am and that way we were going thru at about 11:00 am (coming back) and it only took 15 min. to get thru. Leave at the wrong time and you could be in line to get out for and hour or more. The guy just looked the car over and asked me what business I had down there and I told him I just had some body work done, he said "ok, go on thru".

Those bottom skirts were already white.
He didn't remove the GFX, but he did remove the front and rear bumper covers and paint them seperate.

 

Way to go, Don. Glad to see that it went well. It must be really spectacular!

 

I did an edit on the picture....it is now the new paint job

 

You mean all this time that was an old picture of the car with the old paintjob?

(Gomer Pyle voice) Shame! Shame! Shame!:nono::nono::nono::nono:

 

Yep....shame on me....but it took awhile to get the new pictures